Another fun-filled Butler youth basketball tournament is in the books.

Not before exciting final games at the Taunton Catholic Middle School.

Both the TCMS girls and boys swept the competition on Sunday in the 28th annual Butler Memorial Scholarship tournament, beating Freetown-Lakeville and Seekonk respectively in their division to capture the championship.

It marked the first time since 1988 that both TCMS boys and girls won crowns on the same day.

The TCMS boys beat Seekonk in the finals, 36-29 while the TCMS girls won their matchup, 28-13.

"We wanted to do it for Coach (Bill Ruggiero) and the school," said tournament all-star Kelvin Kariuki, who scored a game-high 16 points. "We want to be known as the last champion that ever played here in this building."

Tournament Most Valuable Player Doug Alves said it was a great achievement on Sunday.

"We played great today and everyone helped each other out," said Alves, who scored 11 points in the victory. "I'm glad we did it for coach. If he is happy then I'm happy."

TCMS boys jumped out to an early 19-1 lead on nine-of 18 shooting and went into the locker room with a 21-1 lead. Alves and Kariuki combined for 12 points in the first 12 minutes

Tournament runner-up Seekonk could not muster a field goal (0-for-20) in the first half. Seekonk all-star Ryan Riordan (six points) scored the lone point on a foul shot with 7:21 remaining in the first half.

In the second half, Seekonk played much better, outscoring TCMS 28-15.

"I think we were not used to playing on a small court like this," Seekonk head coach Tom Holden said. "We were trying to be aggressive in that second half. We rebounded, boxed out and shot the ball better."

Alves and Kariuki scored all of TCMS's 15 points in the final stanza to hold off Seekonk.

Sean Holt scored all his six points in the first half for TCMS while Brandon Loubeau added three.

James Jackson led the way for Seekonk with seven points. Butler unsung hero Eric Kerr added six while Shane Smith and Terry Smith chipped in with five apiece.

"It was really nothing," smiled Piatelli after the game."A lot of my friends had me pumped up before the game. I was just ready to go."

Page 2 of 2 - TCMS coach Phil Rondelli is happy Piatelli was on his side.

"She was on fire today," he said. "She got offensive rebounds and put them back up. She also slowed the tempo down for us in the game, which is very important. Everyone played really well for us today."

It was a defensive battle for both teams in the early stages before Leonard's 3-pointer and Piatelli's two buckets enabled TCMS to break away from Freetown-Lakeville, 11-3.

Freetown-Lakeville scored its only bucket by Tori Sheilds in the half.

TCMS outscored Freetown-Lakeville 5-2 to open the second half and Freetown-Lakeville closed the gap to 20-10. But TCMS held off any thoughts of a comeback by Freetown-Lakeville the rest of the way.

"We played hard and we came out flat," Freetown-Lakeville coach Catie Furtado said. "We tried to get it going in the second half but that did not really work out either. We had spurts of intensity, but overall we did not have it today."

Tournament all-star Sophie Gaucher and Emme Schlageter each finished with four points while Katie Walsh added four points for TCMS.